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Lonnie was inspired by his own father because his father was a skilled handyman who taught his own children to build their own toys. When Lonnie was still a small boy, he and his dad built a pressurized chinaberry shooter out of bamboo shoots. Lonnie built is own invention when he was just 13 he attached a lawnmower engine to a go-kart he built from junkyard scraps and raced it along the highway until the police pulled him over. When Lonnie was growing he dreamed of become a famous inventor. During his teenage years, he began to grow more curious about the way things worked and more ambitious in his experimentation. Lonnie use to tore up his sister’s baby doll to see

1. In 1930, who first patented a design for a reaction (jet) type motor suitable for aircraft propulsion?

John Froelich was born in 1849 in Iowa and attended school in Galena, Illinois, and in Iowa. While in college he became interested in engineering, and farming and agriculture. After he graduated from college, he built the first petrol-powered ‘traction engine’ that would move both forward and backward. The ‘tractor’, as these machines would come to be known, had a 16 horsepower engine and could pull an implement forward as well as go backward. The name ‘tractor’ was derived

     The birth of the automobile was truly something special. Once a far fetched dream is now what many people believe to be the back bone of the American economy. When people think about the automobile the name that comes to mind is most usually Henry Ford. Although he is not credited with the invention of the automobile, Henry Ford played a crucial role in the development of mass production. The automobile was first invented Europe in 1771 with a top speed of 2.3 miles per hour. A man by the name of Gottliech Daimler produced what was known as the milestone car in 1889, this vehicle traveled at 10 miles per hour (Brown, 105). Not more then a handful of these cars were produced over seas. Not many people had ever

The obviously needed time to perfect their invention, it had several details that had to be worked on. Sadly they were not the only ones with this idea, when the engineer took the idea to Kokomo, Indiana where there he helped develop the Haynes machine, which later was proclaimed as the first automobile leaving out the Benton Harbor Baushke brothers.

Eli Whitney was one of the greatest American inventors during at his time. Between 1793 and around 1800 Eli Whitney played an important role during the Market Revolution when he invented the Cotton Gin, which changed the manufacturing of cottons, and the Interchangeable part machines that helped the making of gun parts and luxury items that were easy to produce. Each of his inventions played a very large role in people’s lives for the North and the South. The inventions definitely changed the manufacturing of cotton and the making of gun parts which revolutionized the United States. The Cotton Gin impacted the economy conditions both social and economic; as he fights for his legal rights for his invention, which led him to his invention of the Interchangeable part machines, and signed contract with the government to make as many muskets in a certain period of time.

The brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright, possibly the two most renowned representatives of American aeronautics, were the first to experience controlled, continuous flight of a powered airplane in history. Despite being autodidactic in the area of engineering, the duo proved to be extraordinarily successful, testing and refining their strategies to overcome successive challenges that arose with the building of a plane (Crouch 226). The two were so far ahead in the race for flight that they even anticipated and found solutions to problems that more learned scientists could not have even begun to predict. Successful, man-controlled, powered flight was a fundamental turning point in history; it transformed the methods of how the United States

Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson came to Lockheed in 1932 looking for a job but was turned down soon after for not having enough experience. After that he realized that he need more schooling to be able to get the jobs that he wants so he went back to school an got his master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering. Johnson later went back to the same place he got turned down at for a job but not only got the job but became the sixth engineer working for the Lockheed Company. When World War II came around Johnson helped design the P-38, America’s first airplane to go 400mph. Soon After the assignments as flight test engineer, stress analyst, aerodynamicist, weight engineer, he became chief research engineer in 1938.

When Frank Lloyd Wright gave his ideas on his work and his design, the world was in awe that he could make what the public called magnificent. He acknowledged his skills with the speech he gave along with his actions and he thinks of himself no different from anyone else he meets saying they also have potential. The machine he speaks of is the general thought and creation of products while art, the opposite of the machine is unique creations that took root from the machine but display special characteristics. Frank Lloyd Wright’s speech showed the world what he believed in and told the audience that he was simple man with the idea of art. His ideas on the machine and art are truthful and relevant to everyone and showed a motivation to his audience to become great.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Edward Ehrbar found himself very much in the same entrepreneurial mindset as other greats of the time. Men like the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford had inspired him to set out and found his own company. The “Machine Age” was upon the country, and Ehrbar saw the possibilities of the age like few others.

Have you guys ever been doing something that felt like it was taking forever? Don't you wish that there was a way that you could finish whatever you doing faster? Like when you're doing a project, wouldn't you want to just put everything together in a couple of minutes instead couple of hours. Things would be easier right... we would stress less about not having enough time to do whatever we're doing . Well John Kay thought the same thing when he came up with invention of the flying shuttle. According to the name you'd think it'd be some type of plane, train, or even a ship, but no the flying shuttle isn't what you thought it was. It's made to weave much wider fabrics in a shorter amount of time then it usually took. He wanted there to be a faster way to weave a lot of wider fabrics quicker instead of it taking a long time, this invention sped up the process of it

Kenichi Mabuchi invented the world’s first high performance horseshoe-shaped magnetic motor. In 1954, Kenichi and his brother, Takaichi Mabuchi, set up a workshop within a toy company to begin production of small electric motors under the name of Tokyo Science Industrial Co. for the Japanese toy industry. In an effort to diversify from the toy business and into

Many other people continued the development and improvement of electric automobiles and for a time electric automobiles were the preferred type of Automobile because of their quiet ride, quick start-up, and lack of pollution. In fact electric automobiles held the land speed record well into the early 1900’s. However, they began to decline in the early 1900’s because of the increased prevalence and efficiency of the internal combustion engine.

The vision of Cooper Industries, as stated in the case, was to do an ‘outstanding job at the unglamorous part by making necessary products of exceptional quality.’ The goal was to operate in industries that had become somewhat of a necessity for consumers. Examples of such industries include: power transmission, hand tools, drilling and others. Cooper industries had started in 1833, as an iron foundry, and had existed most of its 150 years as a small sized maker of engines and compressors. However, all this changed in the 1960s, when the management decided to expand the company to lessen its dependence on the capital expenditures of the cyclical natural gas business.

Rolls-Royce Limited is a renowned British car manufacturing company and later, aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce on 15 March 1906 as the result of a partnership formed in 1904. In 1906 they launched the six-cylinder Silver Ghost that, within a year, was hailed as the best car in the world. Once again like the other companies I have covered Rolls Royce also created an outstanding product, which launched them on to the engineering scene, this was again a vital stage of the companies success. It would have brought them income that could then be reinvested in future developments, which allowed the company to grow and develop. At the start of the First World War the demand from the nation for military planes was increasing, this encouraged Royce to design his first aero engine, it was called the Eagle and it provided for almost half of the total engines in the skies at this point in time. The eagle also was the power behind the first direct transatlantic flight as well as the first flight from England to Australia. The late 1920s saw Rolls Royce develop the 'R' engine to power Britain's entry in the International Schneider Trophy seaplane contest. It established a new world air speed record of over 400mph in 1931. More importantly, these records gave Royce the funds and technological base to develop the Merlin, which he had begun to work on before his death in 1933. The Merlin powered two of the most influential